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Earthquake · reviewed by a seismologist

M 1.7ml

4km ENE of Villa Park, CA

· 8.6 km deep · released about 12 lb of TNT

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Distance rings around the epicentre, with the nearest towns at their true direction and later quakes as coloured dots. Not a shaking map — see the USGS ShakeMap for that.
When
Magnitude
M 1.7 (ml)
Depth
8.6 km below the surface
Felt
1 report · strongest reported intensity II
Nearest
Orange County, 17 km S
Status
Reviewed by a seismologist

USGS · last changed by USGS · we first saw it 1468 days ago

This was a minor earthquake. Quakes this small are rarely felt and do not cause damage. 1 person has reported feeling it to USGS.

How big was it?

This earthquake released about 12 lb of TNT. Magnitude is logarithmic: each whole step up releases about 32 times more energy, so a magnitude 2.7 would have released about 32 times as much.

  1. Mineral, Virginia 2011 M 5.8 1,300,000× the energy of this one
  2. Magna, Utah 2020 M 5.7 900,000× the energy of this one
  3. Around the size people start to feel M 3.0 80× the energy of this one
  4. This earthquake M 1.7 about 12 lb of TNT

Energy from the Gutenberg–Richter relation (log10E = 1.5M + 4.8), rounded to two figures; bar length is magnitude, which is already a logarithm of energy. Magnitudes of past earthquakes from the USGS catalogue.

Where

Epicentre 33.8268, -117.7692. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Nearby places

PlaceDistanceDirection
Orange County, CA 17 km (10 mi) N of here earthquakes near Orange County
Los Angeles County, CA 61 km (38 mi) SE of here earthquakes near Los Angeles County
San Diego County, CA 128 km (80 mi) NW of here earthquakes near San Diego County

Places and coordinates from the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2024). Distances are from the epicentre.

Aftershocks so far

34 earthquakes have been recorded within 50 km since this one.

  1. 1.6 2km SSE of Dana Point, CA
  2. 1.8 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  3. 2.0 22km SSW of Seal Beach, CA
  4. 2.6 2km S of Placentia, CA
  5. 1.6 7km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  6. 1.6 7km SSW of Devore, CA
  7. 1.6 4km SE of Home Gardens, CA
  8. 1.7 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  9. 1.5 5km SSE of Home Gardens, CA
  10. 1.9 3km N of Carson, CA
  11. 1.9 5km SE of Ontario, CA
  12. 1.9 5km NW of Mira Loma, CA
  13. 1.7 8km N of Rancho Cucamonga, CA
  14. 2.2 3km SW of Pedley, CA
  15. 2.8 5km ESE of Yorba Linda, CA

Counted from the QuakeIndex database, which ingests the USGS feed every 30 seconds · as of . QuakeIndex does not forecast aftershocks. When USGS issues an operational aftershock forecast it appears on the USGS event page.

For this area

The largest earthquake within 50 km in our catalogue was M 4.5 on 2020-09-19 — it released about 16,000 times the energy of this one.

From the QuakeIndex catalogue, built from the USGS FDSN event service.

On USGS

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